Effect of Snoezelen Room on Birth Process
Effect of Snoezelen Room on Birth Process: a Randomized Controlled Study
Sakarya University
104 participants
Jan 11, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Aromatherapy, visual and auditory stimuli are used together in the Snoezelen room. Aromatherapy increases the production of endorphins, reduces the intensity of pain and distracts the attention from the pain. Music also blocks the transmission of nerve impulses to the spinal cord.Considering these effects, the study emerges as a new technology for the midwifery field in our country. Although the use of snoezelen rooms in the delivery environment is becoming increasingly widespread abroad, it has not been used in delivery services in any hospital in our country. The primary purpose of this study is to convert a room in the delivery room of the hospital into a Snoezelen room and have women complete their delivery process in this room, and the secondary purpose is to determine the effect of the Snoezelen room on the delivery process. The primiparous pregnant women selected for the intervention and control groups will be informed about the purpose of the study and the applications by the research midwife or gynecologist following the birth and will be administered the "Pregnant Information Form", "Visual Analog Scale (VAS)", "Fear of Childbirth Scale", "Birth Comfort Scale", and after birth, the "Birth Information Form", "Birth Satisfaction Scale". The Beta Endorphin Level Recording Form will be filled out.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria5
- Pregnant women who are planned to give birth vaginally in their 37th-42nd weeks of pregnancy,
- who are in their first pregnancy, who do not have any vision,
- hearing or communication problems,
- who can speak Turkish and express themselves in Turkish,
- who volunteer will be included in the study.
Exclusion Criteria8
- Women with multiple pregnancies,
- women who are planned to give birth by cesarean section,
- women who give birth by cesarean section for any reason during the study,
- women who develop any complications during pregnancy,
- women with chronic diseases,
- women with verbal, mental, etc. communication disabilities will not be included in the study.
- Women who have instrumental delivery (with vacuum or forceps),
- postpartum complications in the newborn, or complications related to episiotomy (such as 3rd and 4th degree laceration, hematoma) from the control or intervention groups will be excluded from the study.
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Interventions
'Snoezelen room' is a meaning a room designed to stimulate people's senses. The history of the Snoezelen room dates back to people with mild or severe disabilities. It provides muscle relaxation for people with severe pain. This has become part of complementary medicine that promotes effective comfort and relaxation, which causes the release of endorphins and alleviates a person's capacity to cope with pain. The Snoezelen environment can be used to distract from pain by focusing on various senses, including visual and auditory. Describing multi-sensory therapeutic activity in a special room filled with stimuli that aim to stimulate all senses provides participants with feelings of relaxation and self-control (Nielsen, Overgaard, 2020; Jamshidi Manesh et. al., 2015; Anderson et. al.2011). In the study, the Snoezelen room was designed and the pregnant women in the intervention group will complete their labor in this room, while the control group will complete their labor in the
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NCT06984614